in the arsehole of diogenes

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Monday, 28 March 2016

On the illegalisation of certain drugs.

John Ehrlichman (yes that
John Ehrlichman):

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two
enemies: the anti-war left, and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We
knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by
getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with
heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those
communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their
meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we
were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”